Morocco honorary consul in Calcutta Rashmi Chowdhary

Morocco to receive 6th Canadair firefighter, two more to be delivered soon

Morocco reinforces its firefighting capacities with the reception of a 6th Canadair water bomber, while two others will be delivered soon, defense news portal FAR Maroc said. Hit by the worst drought in decades and the hottest year in over four decades, Morocco fought 500 wildfires that affected over 22,000 hectares last year. This year, […]

16 die in Senegal as boats used by migrants capsizes

16 people on board a boat used for illegal migration died in the night of Sunday to Monday July 24, after their vessel capsized off the Senegalese capital Dakar. “It seems to be migrants,” Samba Kandji, a district deputy mayor, told AFP on Monday. The local fire service, reports say, was alerted at dawn after […]

Sahara: Washington will not support a plan leading to a new African nation – WSJ

The United States made it clear that independence is not an option for settling the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, writes the US widely-circulated daily, The Wall Street Journal. In a story by its special envoy Dion Nissenbaum published Sunday, the US daily notes that US officials who are closely following discussions on the Sahara […]